The premise was, and still is, a three-way mash-up of pulp mainstays: the Gothic Western, Hammer Horror (with an extra dash of Lovecraft on top), and the pulpiest of fantasy-adventure and action-oriented SF.
The world is a vampireįor those who don't know the property, D, launched in 1983, was arguably the first Japanese light novel series to make major inroads for English speaking audiences. Vampire Hunter D, Hideyuki Kikuchi's long-running light novel series, has all the right ingredients for a Western live-action feature: a taciturn dark hero an eldritch and thoroughly cinematic setting more source material to choose from than there are sands in the shores of the Ganges and - most importantly - a property that doesn't need to be altered in the slightest to be adapted well. Every now and then there comes a property that seems so perfectly suited to a live-action adaptation, especially by way of today's filmmaking technology, that it's not only inexplicable but downright sad that it hasn't happened.
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